{"product_id":"9781139152570","title":"Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding","description":"Alon Confino seeks to rethink dominant interpretations of the Holocaust by examining it as a problem in cultural history. As the main research interests of Holocaust scholars are frequently covered terrain – the anti-Semitic ideological campaign, the machinery of killing, the brutal massacres during the war – Confino's research goes in a new direction. He analyzes the culture and sensibilities that made it possible for the Nazis and other Germans to imagine the making of a world without Jews. Confino seeks these insights from the ways historians interpreted another short, violent and foundational event in modern European history – the French Revolution. The comparison of the ways we understand the Holocaust with scholars' interpretations of the French Revolution allows Confino to question some of the basic assumptions of present-day historians concerning historical narration, explanation and understanding.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120268099824,"sku":"9781139152570","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781139152570_p0.jpg?v=1763699829","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781139152570","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}